Microsoft published a few days ago Windows 11 Enterprise IOT LTSC 2024 technical requirements, and what we can gain by examining them is most interesting. Now, for those who are not familiar with the list of surnames in this version of Windows, let’s go with a quick “reading guide” for them.

• Business: The easiest to clarify is that the enterprise editions of Windows were specifically designed to fit the needs of large and medium-sized organizations. So they tend to have a longer lifespan, more security features, more modifications to fit the policies of said companies, etc.
• IoT: in this case we are talking about the version of Windows adapted to the context of the Internet of Things. This is not trivial because it must be able to adapt to a huge and very heterogeneous ecosystem of devices.
• LTSC 2024: short for Long Term Servicing Channel, in this case we are talking about versions of the operating system with a much longer life cycle than usual, and therefore it is not necessary to update as often (not to install certain updates, of course). . In this case, we are talking about a 10-year life cycle.

So Windows 11 Enterprise IOT LTSC 2024 is for compilation version intended for IoT devices in a corporate environment and with an extended life cycle. Of course, this already puts us on the right track that its technical requirements try to be quite different from those of the desktop versions, and the same can be said about what is included in it.

Now we will review the technical requirements of this version, compared to those that have accompanied Windows 11 since its arrival on the marketto show something we’ve been saying for years, that the other’s choice was and still is completely arbitrary.

For easier reading, this table is in text format:

It’s clear that Microsoft has to find a balance to both set the minimums it deems appropriate for a desktop system and provide an operating system for the Internet of Things ecosystem, especially since its project to have an alternative variant of Windows 10 was canceled the ill-fated Windows 10X that could serve this purpose perfectly.

However, the chasm that separates Windows 11 requirements in its desktop versions with what we can see here, it shows us this in a pretty clear way Microsoft was aiming too high, putting 240 million computers out of the game. The good news, of course, is that it is possible to install this version on desktop systems, as we tell you here, although later you will need to install those elements that you need that are not included in this version.